Wow... It's been a while.

Yeah.

A little over a year I think.

Bullet points ok?

The mouse problem took a long time to kinda be fixed, but not. The mice just ate through this spray foam thing that they moved our stove to put down after weeks of complaining.

Found a new bus to take me home with less than a year left at that place.

We moved in January. Again. I now live in Bayonne, NJ.

I lost my wardrobe because I once again, after listing everything that needed to be moved, they under estimated me. Again. Since a bunch of stuff ended up in bags and they packed first, they ran out of room for some of our stuff that I had to once again call for someone else to finish move all of that. Which was mostly my room minus my wardrobe and a metal self that my sister forgot came apart.

The new place isn't bad outside of how long it now takes me to get to work. Before it was like an hour, maybe an hour fifteen minutes. Now I'm starting at an hour and half and it goes up to two hours depending on the day, and the traffic that changes with the time of day.

Then March 15th came and we closed down the store due to Covid 19. We were told that we would be opening back up in two weeks. We knew nothing. Thinking back now, I don't understand how we thought that it would just be those two weeks. I want to say someone lied to someone, but I think no one had a real clue what we were in for and just shutting down was big deal.

I was lucky to still get a pay check until the 18th of the next month. I was going to tell you why, but I don't know if I'm really allowed to, so I'll just leave it at me being lucky to get something for that time.

I then tried to file for unemployment. Actually, I started back in Feb to file for part time unemployment, but I didn't understand that I would be sent a link to finish the process. So when it wouldn't let me continue I didn't try again until the 18th. I still got error once I was able to pick a password and gives answers to all the questions and such. so I sent a complaint and I got some automated thing saying that my complaint was received. Then nothing. I kept checking my mail and after a few weeks I tried again. Then over two or three days I realized an account was made for me after like the fourth error message, but now it's saying that the only password I came up with, and wrote down, was incorrect. Fine. Reset it. No, I can't do that either. My answers to the security quest were wrong. Wrong? How? They were even stored in the browser from when I was trying to make the account.

Another complaint. No human got back to me.

My sister on the other hand, filed for unemployment in NY since she works and pays the taxes there and nothing. Smooth as glass for her. She gets everything.

Speaking of nothing. I didn't get the stimulus checks either. Since I started working again, I've been filing as a dependent except last year that was a mistake. So this year I filed early and myself and then I find out that my sister didn't clam me this year. Did she tell me this? No. So I have to do an amendment to my taxes so I could get the checks. But get this. It takes 13 weeks normally. So I will be getting nothing.

I don't know if it makes it better or worst that I'm not the only one sitting in this ditch. Millions haven't gotten their unemployment money and they were able to file. And another set of millions didn't get their stimulus check.

So were are we now? Oh, I missed something.

During that first two weeks off, I had a cold, or the flu or Covid 19. I haven't a clue. I'm just happy I was over it in a week and there was nothing really abnormal about it.

So I'm working again. I was lucky that I didn't have to pay for the bus until the start of July. So I've been back at work now for a month and a half. Public transit is back to asking for payment, and some people are playing dumb and trying to get on without paying. I'm amazed it went on as long as it did and I got my month pass so I would be ready for when they started up again. Some people rather argue then just pay. I get that alot of people may not have the money they use to, but they should have the two dollars on them in case it was needed. I say two dollars, but I'm sure it's less. I have pass, so I don't really know and don't have to.

So the store. You have to wear a mask to enter the store. Like of course. But you don't understand how cavalier some people can be about their health until they are told to do something. Just riding the bus is starting to freak me out these days. You also have to wear a mask to ride the bus, but some people put it on to get on the bus, then take it off once they are seated. Then there are those people who wear a mask and it doesn't cover their nose at all. They do not understand why they are wearing a mask at all.

The mask is there to protect your lungs first and foremost. So its suppose to cover your nose and mouth.

We have tell people in our store to pull the mask up to cover their nose if not their mouth because the pulled it down to talk. To Talk!

But there are people I can't say anything to because their mask is so loose that it's barely touching their face and it can't be pulled anywhere. I see them and try to keep my distance.

Winter is going to be fun. :D

I switched my shift with someone who asked so I've been home for two days in a row, so I watched Star Trek Continues on YouTube. Partly because the guy who plays Sulu was a guy I've known for a while, just died. You may know him from being a host on Myth Busters. Grant Imahara: 1970–2020. 

So you have just about caught up with me now.

I've started to hang out more at DA again and even customized my page again. They have a new look and I'm learning how to work my way around the place again.

I'm making fractals again and I'm realizing that I don't like Apo anymore. My photos are coming out of my iPhone at the moment. I tried doing some close up work with it and I learned something. Don't do close up work with the iPhone.

It's a little odd to see new work populating my page again.

So, the real reason why I even dragged myself into Blogger to finally type something up.

We requested permission to get a door bell from our new land-people. I may go into that later.

Anyway, they said yes, and we got it a few weeks ago and we are happy with it. Then I came home Monday night and, my ringer cloned itself. They got the same one. I stood there looking at it for bit as I understood what was going on. They have lived here for a while before we showed up, but within a month of us asking and getting one, they got the one and the same kind.

My eyebrow is raised as I look at the second floor. Yeah. They live above us.

Yeah, the little things of living.

Later.

Sorry for the last post.

Yeah, that was a mix up.

It was meant for my other blog. the NSFW one.

I hope I didn't offend any one. Sorry AM.

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I guess after a mistake like that I should do a real update hah?

Well, I've been trying to take pics again with my new iPhone. Did I tell you about that? I should have, but a quick bit about it.

I had a iPhone 6+ and I dropped it in the toilet and after a week of waiting for it turn back on, if that long, I got a new iPhone 7+. I am aware of what year this is, but I couldn't afford a more up todate phone. I paid $200 in cash and the other $200 something I had to place on my credit card. I couldn't afford apple care and I still don't have it.

Other than it being the half the size of my last one, a 32gig instead of a 64gig, I like it. The gif pics it took was bother, but I got that turned off.

I'm writing. But nothing I can post here about. I want get back to my books, but the one I want to work on seems to be stalled in my head and I can't seem to even make myself look up the draft I have for this very old story.

As for work they love the fact that I have no restrictions on my days to work. This week I was only set for three days that came up to a total of 20 hours at best, but I was expended for one day and then asked if I could in for another day. I could have said no. Any changes to your works hours during the week you were already working, once it wasn't an earmarked day to be extended, you can say no.

But 20 hours? I needed the money. Oh, I got a raise. 57 cents. Yep. I needed the hours. I have to make my part of the rent. and cover my payments for my cards. And food and bus card.

My leg still hurts. I thought it getting better about two months ago, but then I started to feel worst. I think I started to do more and it did me no favors. So I'm trying to stay off my feet when I get my days off, but don't get much done unless I have more than a day off. Three would be great, in a row, but there is that thing about earning money.

So I'm using my massage thing, taking hot showers as long as I can. The heat seems to help, so I wrap my leg in a blanket to keep it warm if not hot, while I sleep. Ibuprofen doesn't seem to work anymore. The stuff I got from a doc that I found to continue my heart med prescription with, gave me something that I don't feel at all. I got my hands on some sample of Alive and that seemed to have done something. Once. So now I'm trying Arnicare. I tried the gel and it seems to work, but I'm already really damaged so it helps, but not as much as it has for everyone else who had positive results.

But I'm going to stick with this for a while since it's suppose to actually help heal the injury and not just help with the pain.

I think I strayed a little. I was talking about how they like me at work. As always there was the thing about how I wasn't fast enough. But I've heard one of my managers tell other people to move faster too, so I don't think it's personal anymore.

Three days ago my sister had extra cupcakes so she told me to take the to work. Because they didn't devour all of them by the time work ended, she felt offended. There were only 6 of us there for the whole day. They were good. I got one without the buttercream frosting.

Ok. I have to go tend my was. Sorry I took so long.

Oh, the apt. We have mice now.

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I have installed a coloring app. And I actually like it.

It's more of a hunt and find game for me.

Guess what?

I was on my connecting bus heading home when my sister calls to tell me that most of the power is out in the apartment.

I thought maybe a fuse blew or the kids from upstairs touched something in our box by mistake. Unlikely as that is.

I get home and went into the dark basement just as the kids show up to go down there too.

It seems that bits of both apartments weren't getting power. So now it's almost an hour later and we have most of the lights on. The microwave and the stove have power, but thing else. Anything that uses a socket is dead. Including the water heaters downstairs I believe.

And my day was going so well outside of my leg hurting me. Yeah, it still hurts. I thought it was getting better a few weeks ago, now it feels like it's getting worst. Go figure.

So, back to the crisis of no power. Of course my sister is flipping out. So unless we turn off our phones, they will be dead in the morning. That brings up how do we wake up. No phone, no alarm.

Lucky us we have old ipads that we use as clocks. Mine lasts over 12 hours when unplugged, so I told my sister to get the one from the living room.

Speaking of phones, I had to get a new one yesterday. Friday, I forgot that my phone was in my back pocket in my rush to use the bathroom when I got home from work and it fell into the toilet. And yes. I peed on it. So, I coughed up a little over $600 to get a new iPhone 7+. And I still have to pay rent. Yeah.

And this is the next day. No tv. No internet. No fridge. No doorbell and soon, no phones. I'm at 54% or so now.

So, I was going to say I caught you up, but I haven't said anything about the shower.

Tomorrow.

Later.



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